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Think before you speak

Everyone has said something they didn’t mean, whether it be out of anger, revenge or just simply because you were over stressed and exhausted. Just recently I have learned that we all need to think before we open our mouths or click the keys of our phones.

 

The age old saying, “think before you speak,” has been around for a while to say the least. How many of us actually do that though? Maybe if we are writing a paper or a speech we will, but I know that when I tend to talk, I just talk; my mouth opens and words fly out. Sometimes, those words are hurtful or just down right mean, but they’re going in someone’s direction either way. This past month, I turned 18 and learned this lesson very well. Unfortunately, I learned it the hard way.


We, as humans, are creatures with emotions, and most times when certain emotions are pushed or tampered with, we say what we are feeling. Now whether we speak those things to whom they are meant for or to someone who doesn’t deserve them at all, they are spoken. Usually, people’s feelings are hurt, and they may sit and wonder what they did to get yelled or snapped at. Maybe they didn’t do anything.


It’s really quite simple. We all need to watch what we say and how we say it. I am sure a handful of us have walked down the halls talking about someone else, saying negative things about them. But what if they were to hear? Then what? But maybe if we stop and think about what we are saying about our friends, teachers and just everyone in general, then there wouldn’t be so many people hating each other. The moral of this is that our parents tell us all the time to think before we speak, because we can never be sure who our words might hurt. For all I know, my own words could end up hurting me. And so could yours.

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